25 Most Dangerous Cities in America

[vansmack]

Congratulations, you're number 5!!!!
 
 
 1 Detroit, MI
 2 St. Louis, MO
 3 Atlanta, GA
 4 Camden, NJ
 5 Washington, DC
 6 Compton, CA
 7 Dayton, OH
 8 Baltimore, MD
 9 Tampa, FL
 10 Gary, IN
 11 Memphis, TN
 12 North Charleston, SC
 13 New Orleans, LA
 14 Richmond, VA
 15 Trenton, NJ
 16 Jackson, MS
 17 Cincinnati, OH
 18 Youngstown, OH
 19 Cleveland, OH
 20 Springfield, MA
 21 Oakland, CA
 22 Birmingham, AL
 23 Miami, FL
 24 Richmond, CA
 25 Reading, PA

[paige]

we beat compton? that means dc is fuckin bad ass. right? anyone? maybe?

[vansmack]

Because Rhett will inevitably ask....
 
 Lawrence, KS�??Amherst, New York is on a winning streak. For the fourth consecutive year, the citizens of this upstate New York community can boast that they live in America�??s Safest City. The honor will be announced in the new edition of City Crime Rankings, an annual reference book of crime statistics and rankings slated for publication in early December. The results of the tenth annual Safest City Award, which compares crime in 350 cities, were announced today by Morgan Quitno Press, a Lawrence, Kansas-based publishing and research company. At the opposite end of the crime scale, Detroit, Michigan returns to the spotlight as the nation�??s most dangerous city.
 
 �??Amherst�??s record speaks for itself, �??said Scott Morgan, President of Morgan Quitno Press. With crime rates that are among the lowest in the nation, it is no wonder that this community shines year after year in our annual competition.�?�
 
 The Morgan Quitno Safest City Award is based on a city�??s rate for six basic crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. All cities of 75,000+ populations that reported crime data to the FBI for the six crime categories were included in the rankings. Final 2002 statistics, released by the FBI on October 27, 2003, were used to determine the rankings.
 
 Joining Amherst at the top of the Safest City rankings were Brick Township, NJ; Mission Viejo, CA; Simi Valley, CA and Cary, NC.
 
 At the opposite end of the Morgan Quitno crime scale, Detroit, Michigan returns as the nation�??s most dangerous city. The Motor City anchored the crime rankings in 1999, 2000 and 2001 before it was ousted last year by St. Louis, Missouri. Detroit is joined at the bottom of the crime rankings by (in ascending order) St. Louis, MO; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ and Washington, DC.
 
 In addition to ranking the safety of cities, Morgan Quitno Press also examined crime in metropolitan areas. In those rankings, Bangor, ME was this year�??s Safest Metropolitan Area. The Pine Bluff, AR metropolitan area ranked as the most dangerous.
 
 The findings of the tenth annual Safest City and Metropolitan Area Awards are announced in City Crime Rankings 10th Edition, an annual reference book from Morgan Quitno Press. The newly updated edition of this volume will be available December 8th. The Safest City and Metropolitan Area rankings are one of five Morgan Quitno Awards announced annually by the publishing company. These other annual announcements designate the nation�??s Most Livable State (a state quality of life survey); the Healthiest State (a survey of state health care); the Safest and Most Dangerous States (a state crime survey) and the Smartest State (a state education survey).
 
 Additional information regarding the results of the tenth annual Safest City and Metropolitan Area Awards is available from Morgan Quitno Press via the Internet at www.morganquitno.com. The website provides methodology and rankings of the top and bottom 25 cities.

[vansmack]

And because I am so full of information tonight, here are the safest cities:
 
 1 Amherst, NY
 2 Brick Twnshp, NJ
 3 Mission Viejo, CA
 4 Simi Valley, CA
 5 Cary, NC
 6 Thousand Oaks, CA
 7 Colonie, NY
 8 Clarkstown, NY
 9 Orem, UT
 10 Sunnyvale, CA
 11 Farmington Hills, MI
 12 Troy, MI
 13 Irvine, CA
 14 Lake Forest, CA
 15 Sterling Heights, MI
 16 Canton Twnshp, MI
 17 Roswell, GA
 18 Parma, OH
 19 Provo, UT
 20 Huntington Beach, CA
 21 Stamford, CT
 22 Hamilton Twnshp, NJ
 23 Billings, MT
 24 Edison Twnshp, NJ
 25 Fremont, CA

[thenotebookgirl]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  21 Stamford, CT
 

Where I live in my free time. My God I hate it there.

[poorlulu]

the thing is i'd rather live in the bad places than any of those small towns............
 
 i'll bet the highest rate for suicides reads like the good town list.............yawn

[Justin Tonation]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  And because I am so full of information tonight, here are the safest cities:
 
 25 Fremont, CA

My birth town! (40 years ago last Sunday)

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by i do not heart winter:
  we beat compton? that means dc is fuckin bad ass. right? anyone? maybe?

not as badass as st. louis, so don't cross me, or something

[Justin Tonation]

Originally posted by poorlulu:
  the thing is i'd rather live in the bad places than any of those small towns............
 

Well, Fremont has over 200,000 people scattered over 96 square miles. Elevation ranges from sea level to over 2,200 feet. Mission Peak is visible from almost the entire city and gets snowcapped at least every other winter. No humidity. Rarely freezes, except in the hills. A few days in the 90s in the summer. The part of the city called Niles was the original Hollywood; Charlie Chaplin filmed there.

[stu47]

damn, we're slipping in baltimore.....
 
 I think we used to be 3rd or 4th
 *hurries downtown to instigate some shootings*

[llauraann]

happy birthday last week beetsnotbeats!
 
 and like someone else said.. take a look at the safest cities. i think i can point out like 4 of them on the map. (falling asleep... ) i kind of like the excitement living in baltimore city, keeps ya on your feet.

[es9450a]

Originally posted by llauraann:
  i kind of like the excitement living in baltimore city, keeps ya on your feet.

Car theft tends to do that.

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by stu47:
  damn, we're slipping in baltimore.....
 
 I think we used to be 3rd or 4th
 *hurries downtown to instigate some shootings*

That's only because the social engineers have moved many of the criminals out to the surrounding counties. It's all an evil shell game.

[stu47]

you can say that again......
 
 maybe I should head in towards towson instead?

[kosmo vinyl]

Oh the irony of it all....
 
 While Detroit comes in at number one as the most dangerous City in America, these cities all minutes away from the Eight Mile come in as the safest.  Eight mile is the boundary between Detroit and it's northern suburbs many listed here.   None of these are small towns, rather just squares on a map.   All quite possibly the dullest places on earth, think Northern Virginia or Gaithersburg with even less character.
 
 11 Farmington Hills, MI
 12 Troy, MI
 15 Sterling Heights, MI
 16 Canton Twnshp, MI
 
 Sterling Heights aka Sterile Whites is a four mile x four mile square on a map with little more than a couple modern automobile plants, strip malls and loads of small crap American Dream houses.  My ex was from there and it's amazing how many grown children still live with their parents in the area.  My ex's high school reunion was filled with hairdressers,  etc.  
 
 Detroit is where all the suburanites go to buy their drugs, cause trouble and  get lap dances.  Once I drove the length of 8 mile and counted in the excess of 15 adult entertainment establishments.  All on the Detroit side of the road.
 
 Little wonder why I'm so eager to get back there